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“How do you recover deleted text messages on iPhone? “ Lalolozai questioned on Apple forum. In this post, we are talking about how to retrieve iPhone messages, including SMS, iMessages, WhatsApp messages and Skype messages.

How to Get Back Deleted Messages from iPhone?

1, you can directly restore your iPhone/iPad from backup if you have one iTunes/iCloud backup.

If you have a good habit to back up your device everyday, absolutely, you can get back the messages you deleted easily by simply restoring, which is the perfect free way to retrieve something you lost on your iPhone/iPad.

2, you can restore only the messages and messages attachments from iPhone by using third-part software.

Some backup extracting tools enable you access iOS backup and extract specific data from your iCloud or iTunes backup. And some of these tools provide free trial, such as AnyTrans.

3, you can try to scan your deleted messages on iPhone if there is no backup you created before.

Although Apple doesn’t provide you the official tool to recover text messages, there are also some softwares you can try to scan and find the deleted messages that are not overwritten. And most of them are able to recover more than deleted SMS.

iOS 9 would be the greatest edition for Apple mobile users in this year. However, if you are using some old Apple iOS devices. You should think about how to speed up your device before updating to this new iOS 9 in fall, otherwise, you might get some trouble in/after the process to update to iOS 9. Now let’s talk about some basic tips to speed up your slow devices, no matter whether you have decided to have this update in September.

The 1st tip to speed up your iPhone: Delete the Apps You “Never Use”

You may have download so many useless apps from iTunes/App store. Now, let’s clean them by tap into iPhone storage, delete the ones you think not useful now, especially some free apps you can download anytime when you need them.

The 2nd: Delete some large files on your iPhone/iPad before update to iOS 9

Have you found some large files, such as movies, songs, pictures or some other data on your iPhone/iPadwhen you checked your iPhone storage. You can backup them to your computer and remove them from your iPhone.

The 3rd: There is one way to delete all contents on your iPhone/iPad – Resetting Your Device

If you make sure that you have no important data on your device, you can use this method to erase all content and settings on your device by tapping into setting > general > reset. You will get your iPhone/iPad to default setting.

Note: you should have your devices backed up before you try to have them to the default setting.

End: there are some tips you can use to temporarily speed up your iPhone:

1, Close the apps/games you are using now, maybe so many apps you have turning on.

2, Turn off Background Apps Refresh and Auto-Update

3, Restart your iPhone/iPad or Force Restart.

4, Reset your Network setting.

Note: Before deleting, you are suggested to back up your iPhone/iPad data by using iTunes/iCloud, or extract some important files from device to computer by using transferring apps, such as AnyTrans.

“My iPhone 6 Plus started to download deleted 5000+ email on my mail server to my iPhone after using iTunes sync. What can I do to remove them from my iPhone, iOS 8? I have followed some guide online to delete emails from all mailboxs and trash, and change back to weeks ago. However, it doesn’t work.” — Jason, question from Discussion Apple.

“I found there is no trash all to 1-click delete all emails on my iPhone” — iOS 10 user.

When you want to free up your space, tap on your iPhone, and going to usage, you may found your email store is more than 500 MB used. Deleting all emails in iOS 9 is so easy since iOS 9 offers you “Trash All ” on Inbox and other Mailboxes to make it. but how to quickly delete all emails in iOS 8/10 devices?

No “Trash All”? How to Delete All Emails in iOS 8/10 Inbox

Besides removing emails one by one, this is one simple method to delete all emails on iPhone iPad inbox for iOS 8 and iOS 10.

Open Inbox > Edit > Check one message; it will highlight the move button.

Press and hold”Move” button and uncheck the message that you checked before.

“I have deleted all photos on my iPhone 6, and now there is Zero pics in Albums, including Camera Roll, Recently Deleted, Synced from iPhone and Photo Stream. However, when checking setting > general > usage > storage > manage storage, it shows 0.9GB in photos & camera. And iTunes shows there are 0.9 GB also. So something hidden behind are eating my iPhone space? “Jaassy posted his question recently after updating his iPhone 6 to iOS 9.

About how to remove this phantom photos from iPhone/iPad. After several attempts, people found:

[Updated: Sept 20, 2016]: It’s reported that some iPhone 6 users got this iTunes sync problem after updating to iOS 10 recently. And we have updated this post to offer you some new tips

“Upgrade to iOS 10, my iPhone won’t sync music and playlists with iTunes, and even after I upgraded my iTunes to iTunes 12.5.1” – one iPhone 6 user questioned on iPhone forum about “iTunes can’t sync”.In this September, 2016, you may face the same iOS problem when syncing iTunes music library to your iPhone or iPad/iPod after updating to iOS 10 final version or coming iOS 10.x.x.

Although, Apple always release new version of iTunes to fix coming iTunes bugs and sync problems (recently, Apple released iTunes 12.5.1 to better support iOS 10 updates, the problems never be completely fixed. So what if you get this kind of iTunes issue and cannot sync data from iTunes to your iPhone 6 or other iOS devices, how can you fix it?

How to fix “can’t sync music to iPhone, iPad, iPod” problems in iOS 9 and iOS 10

After collecting from a few forums, we listed the solutions as below:

Solution 1. Sync again after turning off iCloud Music on your iPhone.

Tap “Setting” on iPhone > “Music” > Turn off “iCloud Music Library”.
Note: this method is not available for Windows vista.

Solution 2. Sync after turning off iTunes Match on iPhone.

Make sure that you don’t have iTunes Match enabled in Settings > Music.

Plug in your iPhone, iPad or iPod and launch iTunes.

Click your device icon at the top of the iTunes window.

Select Music in the side navigation panel.

Uncheck Sync Music option in the right panel and then click Apply or Sync.

Once the sync is complete, recheck the box for Sync Music and hit Apply or Sync again.

If you are one of windows users who meet this iTunes sync issue, you can check whether the permission property of your “iTunes” folder or the data you plan to sync is “Read Only”. If you checked “Read Only”, you cannot transfer or edit the file but only read it.

Open Windows Explorer > Music > iTunes, right click this folder and go to Properties, and uncheck “Read Only”.

Solution 6. Use iTunes Alternatives.

If you still cannot use iTunes to sync iPhone iPad, you can look for help from some iTunes alternatives, such as AnyTrans, to share songs, movies and pictures across all of your Apple devices. It’s said that it also helps sync your selected files from iPhone to iTunes.

Leave a comment, no matter it is iOS 9/iOS 10 problem or related solutions, which may be helpful to others.

Can’t use iTunes Home Sharing to share songs after updating to iOS 8.4? Don’t worry, there are some alternatives to iTunes you could try to transfer songs between any Mac/PC and device, no matter it is iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or old iPod nano, classic.

Any iOS 8.4 users have the chance to enjoy the 3 month free trail of new Music streaming services on their iDevices. The thing they should to do is just to sign up to be one of Apple Music members and choose one pay between $9.99 for individual plan or $14.99 for family plan. However, you will auto pay for the membership after 3 month trial. Of course, you may not want to just like Europa said below